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Post by amipal on Jan 25, 2022 10:44:07 GMT
We're going to be eating a vegetarian haggis tonight. Is is cultural appropriation? I never remember any mention of Burns Night prior to the year 2000. It certainly feels like the rest of Britain are keen to celebrate it these days. But how can it be appropriation? Scotland’s part of the British Isles, ergo it should be alright for Welsh, Irish, and English Britons to take part, shouldn’t it? I bet Owen Jones has something to say about it. Or George Monbiot. While sipping latte. |
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Post by Chumbles on Jan 25, 2022 10:46:55 GMT
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Post by amipal on Jan 25, 2022 10:49:06 GMT
Morning all.
Day two of the Big Disruption Project. No, no, it has nothing to do with Classic Dom - it’s the replacement of our kitchen and Other Works.
The old kitchen is now in the back garden, and work has begun on chipping away the chimney cladding in the living and dining rooms.
I feel like I’m living like a student. Boiling a kettle on the bedroom floor, washing things up in the bath… it’s wild, man. Wild.
TVblog: no chance, it’s not even on the wall anymore.
Warhermitblog: some painting of blacks to prepare for metal work. I also began on some white blocking, for future bright colours.
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Post by gongfarmer on Jan 25, 2022 10:51:29 GMT
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Post by lazybones on Jan 25, 2022 10:52:20 GMT
We're going to be eating a vegetarian haggis tonight. Is is cultural appropriation? I never remember any mention of Burns Night prior to the year 2000. It certainly feels like the rest of Britain are keen to celebrate it these days. But how can it be appropriation? Scotland’s part of the British Isles, ergo it should be alright for Welsh, Irish, and English Britons to take part, shouldn’t it? I bet Owen Jones has something to say about it. Or George Monbiot. While sipping latte. A Great British Burn's Night? |
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Post by Sheep2 on Jan 25, 2022 10:55:19 GMT
Morning! Cold out there today. Luckily I have my mountain of Baxters and Heinz soup tins to warm my cockles. None of that Crosse & Blackwell muck. Cocklealeekie soup? |
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Post by Sheep2 on Jan 25, 2022 10:57:57 GMT
I never remember any mention of Burns Night prior to the year 2000. I used to drink whisky on 25 January from about 1990 onwards. |
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Post by Sheep2 on Jan 25, 2022 10:58:25 GMT
That doesn't necessarily distinguish it from other nights.
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Post by Felice Landry on Jan 25, 2022 11:10:32 GMT
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Post by Chumbles on Jan 25, 2022 11:26:55 GMT
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Post by MrTiddles on Jan 25, 2022 11:40:51 GMT
Morning! Cold out there today. Luckily I have my mountain of Baxters and Heinz soup tins to warm my cockles. None of that Crosse & Blackwell muck. It's just a shame you won't be able to finish that mountain of soup. |
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Post by MrTiddles on Jan 25, 2022 12:03:23 GMT
Hullo.
Films: Watched 12 Monkeys recently and most of Snatch last night. All the Brads.
Wordle: Not really feeling it, I've lost the competitive edge.
Tuffers: Is a dead man.
OTTM: I have spoken to my interwebz provider apropos the new router NOT arriving after 2 weeks. I don't really need it, but it was free (p&p extra).
As you were.
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Post by Tuffers on Jan 25, 2022 12:25:14 GMT
Shenguin made me do it honest guv!
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Post by sandybahookie on Jan 25, 2022 12:37:07 GMT
one day SHART will be the opening word, but until that day I'll have to find a way to be get by on 3s and 4s.
Went for a glory shot on line 2 but it rebounded badly.
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Post by crankcaller on Jan 25, 2022 12:42:18 GMT
A friend just dropped off some refresher bars. Scenes.
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Post by sandybahookie on Jan 25, 2022 12:54:52 GMT
#hardmode
I'm happy for our English cousins to try out our Burns night and Scottish culture.
If we wanted to try Morris Dancing, voting Tory or incest they wouldnt mind either.
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Post by Sheep2 on Jan 25, 2022 12:56:16 GMT
I'm not sure Morris Dancing and incest are two separate things.
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Post by crankcaller on Jan 25, 2022 12:57:37 GMT
Amipal and lazybones on the bam-up there. Lovely.
Why don't you celebrate Shakespeare night with some Morris dancing and some pie n mash? Do you hate England?
Burns night has become another 'holiday' or celebration, like St Patrick's night.
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Post by crankcaller on Jan 25, 2022 12:58:12 GMT
Ha.
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Post by Sheep2 on Jan 25, 2022 13:04:47 GMT
Is there anything actually authentically Scottish?
Whisky, heather haggis, kilts, mountains. All just invented to take money off cairngormless tourists.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Jan 25, 2022 13:09:15 GMT
I went to a big Burns night ceilidh in Kent in about 1998, seemingly organised by locals of Scotch descent. There was a polite dancing show by the local retired ladies, a Geordie guy played the Northumbrian pipes, and fish and chips were provided from the takeaway next door. It was in a Conservative club, and someone had covered up all the paintings of Margaret Thatcher with towels. Very thoughtful. 4 stars.
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Post by Sheep2 on Jan 25, 2022 13:11:16 GMT
Rolling Escargot has even joined the Tories. What could be more authentically Scottish than that?
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Post by Ozymandias Kane on Jan 25, 2022 13:23:27 GMT
afternoon all Wordle 220 4/6 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜🟨🟩⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I'll be back  |
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Post by tenthenemy on Jan 25, 2022 13:26:12 GMT
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Using the dark theme for the first time. Happy now?
Trying to be clever in line 3. Didn't work.
Today is not only Burns Night but also the (round) birthday of the grandkids' mother, so celebratory haggis on this day has been in our family forever. I'm a great believer in cultural appropriation; I'm happy to appropriate anything of cultural value, which automatically excludes Morris dancing and/or incest. Still, I was surprised to be asked by English friends for my recipe for neeps & tatties and how to tame a wild haggis. But now my PM is no longer here to pipe in the haggis and I'm not sure I'm up to the task myself. I'll stick with the whisky for now, I guess. Slàinte mhath.
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Post by lazybones on Jan 25, 2022 13:31:44 GMT
Our bottle of Scottish whisky got ‘taken in’ by a neighbour. Only it isn’t clear which one. By the look of the photo DPD sent it was a neighbour in a different building… somewhere near the postcode.
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